Personal Autonomy and Mental Capacity
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The Mental Capacity Act 2005 has put the assessment of mental capacity for decisionmaking at the forefront of psychiatric practice. This capacity is commonly linked within philosophy to (personal) autonomy, that is, to the idea(l) of self-government. However, philosophers disagree deeply about what constitutes autonomy. This contribution brings out how the competing conceptions of autonomy would play out in psychiatric practice, taking anorexia nervosa as a test case.
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تاریخ انتشار 2011